Croatia's Long Hot Summer
A succession of foreign visitors have being turning up the heat on Zagreb over war crimes. And things look set to get hotter still.
A succession of foreign visitors have being turning up the heat on Zagreb over war crimes. And things look set to get hotter still.
As Macedonia's veteran president Kiro Gligorov prepares to bow out of politics, would-be successors are jockeying for position in what is an increasingly open race.
Bucharest is determined to ingratiate itself with the West and integrate itself in European institutions. But Romanians are sceptical about talk of a Stability Pact for south-eastern Europe.
Muslims who fled Yugoslavia's Sandzak region are not returning, and little else is functioning except for factories starting once again to make 'Original' Levi's 501 jeans and other bogus brand names.
Most of Pristina's remaining Serbs are elderly women. Yet they are still targets for "revenge" attacks.
Buoyed by the promise of a Stability Pact for south-eastern Europe and the prospect of new electoral laws, Bosnia's Social Democratic Party is expanding into Republika Srpska and hopes to appeal to Serb voters.
Some 20,000 Serbs and Croats were supposed to return to Sarajevo in 1998, the so-called "year of minority return". Nine months into 1999, the number of returnees remains disappointing.
Foreign soldiers, aid workers and journalists are settling in Pristina, expecting a long stay in a post-war land where only the NGOs' acronyms are in order.
As the UN struggles to build its presence in Kosovo, the problems it faces mount by the day.
Members of Kosovo's provisional government are angry over the international community's refusal to accord them even temporary legitimacy.